News and Media Releases
On Tuesday 25 March 2025 the Treasurer, The Hon Dr Jim Chalmers MP announced the 2025-26 Federal Budget, which included $12.1 million in additional funding for the CDPP, for the following measures:
The CDPP Sydney office is now located at 52 World Square, 52 Goulburn Street, Sydney, NSW.
Physical access to the offices is via reception on Level 19.
Telephone numbers, email addresses and postal address remain the same:
The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Cth) 2023-24 Annual Report was tabled in Parl
The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Cth) Corporate Plan 2024–28 is now available and aims to guide and connect our strategic themes, as well as annual business and operational planning across our national prosecution practice through to 2028.
The Director of Public Prosecutions (Cth) Raelene Sharp KC confirmed that on 1 June 2024, Warren Day will join the CDPP on secondment for 6 months, as the Director’s Executive Officer.
On 5 March 2024, CDPP staff acknowledged the 40 year anniversary of the Office being established.
The CDPP’s Diversity and Inclusion Strategy 2024-26 is now available.
The 2021-22 CDPP Annual Report was tabled in Parliament on Friday 28 October 20
The CDPP recently received an overall satisfaction score of 86 per cent from its biennial 2022 Partner Agency Survey.
The Attorney-General of New South Wales today announced the appointment of Ms Sarah McNaughton SC as a judge of the Supreme Court of NSW.
The CDPP’s Library and Research Services team has won the 2022 Legal Information Service of the Year award announced at the Australian Law Librarians’ Association (ALLA) conference in Hobart on Thursday 26 August.
On 7 July 2022 the Commonwealth Attorney-General, the Honourable Mark Dreyfus QC MP, announced he had declined to proceed further in the prosecution of Mr Bernard Collaery for five offences relating to the alleged unlawful communication of ASIS information contrary to the Intelligence Ser
On 11 February 2022, the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions Ms Sarah McNaughton SC announced her decision to decline to proceed further in the criminal prosecutions of Citigroup Global Markets Australia Pty Limited, Deutsche Bank AG and four senior banking executives for cartel offences
The CDPP 2020-21 Annual Report was tabled in Parliament on Wednesday 20 October 2021.
The Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions, Sarah McNaughton SC, has been extended in the role for a further two years.
The Office of the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (CDPP) is an independent prosecution service established by Parliament under the Director of Public Prosecutions Act 1983 (Cth) to prosecute alleged offences against Commonwealth law.